In 2021, Semaj Brown was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Brown was awarded the Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship for an interdisciplinary, integrated on-line platform, The Poetry Pod Project (P3), which focuses on utilizing poetry to enhance literacy while including art and science. Her pedagogy, coined TiSiWiDi (Think it, Say it, Write/Work it, Do it), integrates music, visual art, performance, and games to enhance the appreciation of poetry through the listening to, reading, and writing of poetry.